Gerhard Fleischhut

Gerhard Fleischhut (born April 28, 1923 in Wilhelmshaven ; † July 4, 1978 in Koblenz ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

biography

Fleischhut was the youngest son of the naval officer Martin Fleischhut and Luise Fleischhut. The on-board photographer Richard Fleischhut (1881–1951) was his uncle. He grew up in Wilhelmshaven and completed an apprenticeship in a radio shop by 1941.
In 1943 he was seriously injured in World War II . From 1944 to 1945 he studied with Rudolf Hengstenberg at the Nordic Art Academy in Bremen. From 1945 to 1946 he was again a soldier or a prisoner of war. He and his wife had lived in Gudendorf south of Cuxhaven since 1947 .

Fleischhut worked as a painter from 1941 and as a freelance artist from 1947, who also earned his living with sideline jobs. At times he was a member of the Bakegilde artists' association and the Association of Visual Artists (BBK) in Cuxhaven-Stade. He was represented at many exhibitions, including solo exhibitions in 1976 and 1977 and posthumously in 1980 and 2001. His travels in France were formative for his work, consisting of watercolors, prints and drawings as well as some oil paintings and a few glass paintings.

In 1963 Fleischhut moved to Koblenz and worked as a graphic artist at the Bundeswehr School for Inner Guidance in Koblenz-Pfaffendorfer Höhe . From 1963 onwards, during his phase of artistic change, increasingly collages and material images were created.
In 1969 he was employed at the Middle Rhine Museum , Koblenz. In addition to his full-time occupations, he was a graphic lecturer at the Volkshochschule in Koblenz for ten years.

Works

Watercolors, oil, wax, graphics, drawings, collages and sheets of material

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography on his website
2. ↑ Stadtwiki Cuxhaven: Fleischhut, Gerhard .
3. ^ Gerhard Fleischhut: work